[Esbox-users] cannot start esbox. starting esbox displays empty dialog on Ubuntu Karmic

[Mustali Dalal]

Ed,

Thanks for the reply Ed. Did you mean 1.9 and 1.8 instead of 1.19/1.18? I
did install xulrunner and set the GDK variable. still didn't work.

user at ttelmtux:~$ dpkg -l xul*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
un xulrunner <none> (no description available)
rc xulrunner-1.9 1.9.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.0 XUL + XPCOM
application runner
un xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support <none> (no description available)
ii xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 XUL + XPCOM application
runner
ii xulrunner-1.9.1-gnome-support 1.9.1.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 Support
for GNOME in xulrunner-1.9.1 applications



user at ttelmtux:~$ sudo apt-get install xulrunner
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
gcj-4.3-base libgcj9-0 libgcj-bc libswt-gtk-3.5-jni
libaccess-bridge-java-jni libaccess-bridge-java icedtea-6-jre-cacao
gcj-4.4-jre-lib libgcj10 gij-4.3 ant-optional-gcj ant
gcj-4.4-base libequinox-osgi-java default-jre libgcj-common libjaxp1.3-java
openjdk-6-jre-headless tzdata-java openjdk-6-jre libjline-java
openjdk-6-jre-lib libgcj9-jar
libxerces2-java gcj-4.4-jre-headless rhino default-jre-headless
libswt-gtk-3.5-java ca-certificates-java ant-gcj ant-optional
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
libmozjs0d libxul-common libxul0d
Suggested packages:
xulrunner-gnome-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libmozjs0d libxul-common libxul0d xulrunner
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,565kB of archives.
After this operation, 23.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://mirror.ovh.net karmic/universe libmozjs0d
1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [378kB]
Get:2 http://mirror.ovh.net karmic/universe libxul-common
1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [1,173kB]
Get:3 http://mirror.ovh.net karmic/universe libxul0d
1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [5,728kB]
Get:4 http://mirror.ovh.net karmic/universe xulrunner
1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 [286kB]
Fetched 7,565kB in 6s (1,087kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package libmozjs0d.
(Reading database ... 275390 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libmozjs0d (from
.../libmozjs0d_1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libxul-common.
Unpacking libxul-common (from
.../libxul-common_1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libxul0d.
Unpacking libxul0d (from .../libxul0d_1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb)
...
Selecting previously deselected package xulrunner.
Unpacking xulrunner (from
.../xulrunner_1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libmozjs0d (1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up libxul-common (1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libxul0d (1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...

Setting up xulrunner (1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, <Ed.Swartz at nokia.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
>
> After following the instructions for installing from the Product-Archives (
> http://esbox.garage.maemo.org/2nd_edition/installation_product.html) on
> Ubuntu 9.10, I am unable to start Esbox.
>
> Executing esbox displays the workspace confirmation window. After
> acknowledgement, I see the Esbox splash screen displaying 'Loading
> Workbench'. But soon after that I get a blank window (attached).
> I did set the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS variable and still no go.
>
>  [[ejs]] This error is different, unfortunately.   The startup screen for
> a new workspace uses a web browser component that depends on Mozilla's
> xulrunner.  In newer Linux releases, this xulrunner is 1.19 and incompatible
> with Eclipse.  You can apt-get install xulrunner to get a compatible version
> (1.18).  The latest integration releases should have an "esbox.sh" script
> inside which will find and use that version and work around this issue, as
> well as the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS one.
>
>  Hope this works!
>
>  -- Ed
>
>
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